Juan Emilio Cheyre

Juan Emilio Cheyre (10 October 1947-) was a Chilean army general who served as the army's commander-in-chief from 2002 to 2006. On 9 November 2018, he was sentenced to 3 years under house arrest for crimes committed during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.

Biography
Juan Emilio Cheyre was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947, and he graduated from the military academy in 1966. He took part in the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, and, as a regimental commander during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship, he took part in forced disappearances and murders. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Governor of the Atacama Region, and he served as commander-in-chief of the army from 2002 to 2006. He verbally condemned the crimes committed by the Pinochet regime, hoping to distance the military from Pinochet's dictatorship, but, on 9 November 2018, Cheyre was sentenced to three years of house arrest in connection to crimes that he committed during the Pinochet regime.